Caporegime
On the subject of playing games with a lot of background tasks and 8 core CPU's being better for that, or can be, not always but it can help.
These guys are so anti higher end components they will not even acknowledge the benefits of them, they are not even talking about 12 or 16 core parts, in which case i would agree that's probably not going to help, but they are talking about a Ryzen 5600 vs a Ryzen 5700X, its the tired old "you only need X number of cores" argument when all they do is test on clean installed Windows with nothing but the game running.
Before even making the argument that it makes no discernable difference they have to start, as these guys always do, by being pompous #### at the people posing this argument, like they are unreasonably hateful of it, they are... Suggesting they are only casual gamers who don't care about frame rates, which ironically contradicts their own argument, the fact that they want to keep up their frame rates while listening to Spotify and Youtube or having a stream running on a second monitor suggests their reasoning for having a CPU with that bit more resources is valid.
I am someone who will listen to Youtube while playing a game, i do it constantly, i was listening to them talk complete nonsense while playing Star Citizen, and boy am i glad i have an 8 core CPU.
I can't stand this type of tech journalism, a couple of talking heads poo pooing what the rest of the internet knows to be true from experience because "you only need 6 cores" like some ###### Marxist PC Leninism.
These guys are so anti higher end components they will not even acknowledge the benefits of them, they are not even talking about 12 or 16 core parts, in which case i would agree that's probably not going to help, but they are talking about a Ryzen 5600 vs a Ryzen 5700X, its the tired old "you only need X number of cores" argument when all they do is test on clean installed Windows with nothing but the game running.
Before even making the argument that it makes no discernable difference they have to start, as these guys always do, by being pompous #### at the people posing this argument, like they are unreasonably hateful of it, they are... Suggesting they are only casual gamers who don't care about frame rates, which ironically contradicts their own argument, the fact that they want to keep up their frame rates while listening to Spotify and Youtube or having a stream running on a second monitor suggests their reasoning for having a CPU with that bit more resources is valid.
I am someone who will listen to Youtube while playing a game, i do it constantly, i was listening to them talk complete nonsense while playing Star Citizen, and boy am i glad i have an 8 core CPU.
I can't stand this type of tech journalism, a couple of talking heads poo pooing what the rest of the internet knows to be true from experience because "you only need 6 cores" like some ###### Marxist PC Leninism.
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there is a vivid potpourri of games out there, if you look beyond EA or any of the other accountant run publishers, there is more to PC gaming than running round shooting at others running around shooting, you can do that on a console.
